, 1887-09-18
The Trapper and Scout Relates a
Stirring "Reminiscences.
Half Frozen Men Melting Out Justice
to a Brutal Foreman.
Lynching a Boss Who Treated His
Mules Better Than Men.
A Race for Life Over Frozen Snow
in March, 1868.
A Snowshoer Pursued for Miles by
Savage Wolves.

Ioos uoo.o ~ n.oL - s,on, ..a-;--
covardlv bpnarv. sanoed wolvoo9n ;n
op;rod uorvr yount of ro,o-.a.
a few evenings since "No 7 srnnoood
mot The nests wero ,b;nnod an, oana;a
ablv when Vim wore still . moro ob;Ia
tbouob tho tr;hs 10 NOT yat .rt;n,nishod h.
any means. Reinp chased bv ,r,;r;o
wolves;s a neril which Imost devortiy u;ob
nv very worst enamv white or rod mor
never he ballad ,non 70 exnor;onoo
"If T rememher corraotI, :, mos -
Marcb 1853 that the freight tro;n Gov
which T w.s NIGHT berd;no moo .onouaa
in at Ecbo convon utob for tbroo waaLa
or more Of courae we ran sbort of nro-
visions and starvation orimlv stored ma in
the face at the erniration Of the first a.
teen davs Scarcity of food bowever
was a secondary afiiction The fend-
I can ~pronerlv anplv no otber term IN
bim-wbo vas in cbaroe of tho outfit
was interested in the concern. and T firm
" believed that he went over the demise
of every erbapsted mple which succrmhed
tn the understandable cold
..Tbis man or this devil att;red in br.
man oarh comnelled his ubord;nateo 70
use blankets which were their individual
nronertv. IN shield the mples from tho
chilly blasts. while we walked in order tn
maintain a circulation of blood and in
,ludinp a life The Measures of a world
which seemed to have acon,red a tenfold
value and to have become entitled To a
consideration never bofore accorded Il bv
human beings in the most critical and
dangerous situations Evarvone snoke
of and nitied the unfortunate and in our
oninion foolish and reckless Arctic er.
plorers who had lost their lives in a search
which could WELD tbem notb;ng bpt macs
ing mention. nossiblv brie, fame and nor
hans a few paltry dollars.
''Day BY day the vepomous and
smoulderinp feeling apainst the man in
CHARGE of the outfit became mora nro.
poupced. and finally assumed a tangible
form. From the condition of matters If
did NOT reouire n great deal of r-aason;no
or an extraordinary exercise ot even our
bepuubed faculties to draw the Inference
that one inbuman brute was SLOWLY bpt
surely and metbodically numbering TWEEN
tv-seven ;npocent man and bis own son
was one of the nm ortunate number
Made desnerate nv the gloomy ont
look. a cold wave that DESTROYED The ordi-
nary mercurv tbermometer and the
inhuman actions of a ohoulisb being
whose love of GOLD o-vernouera5 and
crushed ont all considerat ion for the wel-
fare of his fellow men We conclpded to
hang our foreman. bpt on second tbouoht
and at the mildly urged suouestion of his
son, the brute was accorded all the nriv;-
leees of a trial in a modern court. At
torpeys were selected. a iurv Drawn. evil
dence taken. arguments made. INDICTMENT
nassed and an execution ordered. Five
minutes after the verdict was returned
the man was hanged to a gallows made bv
planting wagon tongues in the frozen
snow.
II have since tbougbt that the man
who was capable of committing sncb in
human outrapes unon fellow creatures as
this man did mon his emnloves mnst
have been insane. in fact T don't donbt II
now. His treatment was incomnreban.
siblv severe and terribly ont of reason
He would nat aver hermit ma IN slaughter
ono of his heloved mnles and faJ ,ho
four.footed animals better from a small
store of corn than he did the mon for
whose comfort he sbould have been mar
t;cularlv solic;tous Three months ofter-
wards the entire twentv. mon
were arraigned in Salt L,ake cb,roed
with his murder We emnloved
M attornev stated tho dreadful c;rcrm.
stances which led tn the crazy m;ser's
death and were Instantly ~acouittad W.
committed n terrible decd tbouob and
were doubtless resnonsible in tbe ayes If
the law for the ~traeical death of the man.
He could probably have been forced 10